Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.
There are other ways investigators could have connected activity to Ono. He may have used Nyaa without a VPN while logged into an account. Data from website cookies or content-delivery-network logs could also have been matched with Nyaa activity and tracker records. CODA has not said whether any of those methods were used.
VPN isn’t enough, you gotta worry about fingerprinting and cookies too. Recently it was revealed that Windows 11 has strong fingerprinting options that could be used to track you.
I wonder if they were using a VPN or seedbox. You could even do remote desktop into seedbox and browse the sites from there.
damn if i worked for something called the “japan hacker association” and helped the government catch a torrent seeder, i would do the only respectable thing and walk into a sewer drain
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What’s funny is, if piracy is removed as an option, collectively we would all focus on the stranglehold movie production companies have, and break it up, to essentially produce the same effect. Utilising and focusing all that technical skills and ability to how do we cause things to change. By upping their game, they’re shooting themselves in the foot.
Trackers can show which users are active in a torrent at a given time. They may indicate whether a user has a complete copy of a file or is still downloading it. If investigators followed newly posted torrents over a long period, they may have been able to identify an IP address that repeatedly appeared as the first source with a complete copy.
That’s some dedication
That’s some dedication
I mean, what you call dedication sounds like an auto scraper vacuuming IP’s with time stamps and correlating it with torrent go-live dates after looking at a spreadsheet for a couple hours.
Yeah, that’s what it would be. I am old have visions of people poring over the data manually :)
Interesting. I never thought of it like that. Now I’ll have to be more careful
I wonder if they’re using any of the *arrs to do this since its a faster response time to get into the peerlist as quick as possible before anyone can complete the initial download.
someone has to be the first one with the file. That’s the same person who created the torrent.
I doubt it. It’s likely custom code that’s better suited to the task.
The *arrs watch RSS feeds to find new torrents. It wouldn’t be difficult to write a script that pulls the RSS feed and polls the tracker to collect data on the initial seeds/peers. They might use an actual torrent client for some of the data collection, since I’d guess they have to prove the person is actually uploading, rather than just being connected but not actually uploading or downloading.
Sounds to me like they just own one of these trackers. Just like the NSA controls nodes on the tor network.
